Jose L Gomez

un segundo es tan breve... que un primero no llega a existir. las flores del tiempo se marchitan al contarlas.

[NP @nadalprop_]

“Dad, was Nadal actually as good as they say?”

“Son, he defeated peak Federer at Wimbledon. Beat prime Djokovic in two USO finals. Olympic Gold in his first try. Won AO from 0-2 down at 36... he was the best.”

“Wow! But that's all on grass & HC. Was he not that good on clay?”

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A parasite that has been eating people for 3,500 years is about to be wiped off the planet. It infected 3.5 million people in 1986. Last year, it infected 10. And I have not seen it make a single front page.

It is called Guinea worm. You drink contaminated water from a pond in a poor village. A year later, a worm up to three feet long starts coming out of your leg through a burning blister. There is no pill that stops it and no surgery that works. You wrap the worm around a stick and pull it out slowly, over days or weeks, inch by inch. If you rush, the worm breaks inside you and causes a fresh infection.

Guinea worm is ancient. Preserved worms have been pulled out of Egyptian mummies from around 1000 BCE. The Ebers Papyrus, an Egyptian medical scroll from 1550 BCE, describes pulling the worm out with a stick. For three and a half thousand years, that was the best humans could do.

Then in 1986, public health workers decided to kill the parasite off. They had no vaccine and no drug. What they had was cheap cloth water filters and a small army of volunteers willing to walk from village to village for decades.

The plan was simple. Give everyone who drinks from a pond a cloth filter to strain out the tiny water fleas that spread the parasite. Then send volunteers walking house to house, year after year, teaching people how to use the filters and keeping anyone with an emerging worm out of the water.

It worked. From 3.5 million cases a year to 10. Four were in Chad, four in Ethiopia, two in South Sudan. The other four countries where the worm used to be common, Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and Mali, had zero human cases for the second year in a row. The World Health Organization has already certified 200 countries as Guinea worm free. Six are left.

The last hurdle is dogs. Cameroon had 445 infected animals last year and Chad had 147, so a lot of the remaining work is on animals, not humans. Strays get leashed, and crews treat ponds to kill any remaining worms. The campaign keeps watching until the number hits zero.

When Guinea worm hits zero, it becomes the second human disease ever erased from the planet. The first was smallpox. It will also be the first parasite humans have ever wiped out, and the first disease ever ended without a single dose of medicine. Volunteers walked village to village with cloth filters for 40 years. Now a plague from the age of the pharaohs is about to be gone.

[MisterChip (Alexis) @2010MisterChip]

LAS NUEVE LEYENDAS DEL TENIS QUE GANARON LOS CUATROS GRAND SLAMS POR ORDEN DE EDAD

Carlos Alcaraz, con 22 años y 272 días (en 2026)
Don Budge, con 22 años y 363 días (en 1938)
Rod Laver, con 24 años y 32 días (en 1962)
Rafa Nadal, con 24 años y 102 días (en 2010)
Fred Perry, con 26 años y 15 días (en 1935)
Roy Emerson, con 27 años y 244 días (en 1964)
Roger Federer, con 27 años y 303 días (en 2009)
Novak Djokovic, con 29 años y 15 días (en 2016)
Andre Agassi, con 29 años y 68 días (en 1999)

[björk @bjork]

so extremely honoured to be on this song with rosalía !
it is so thrilling to watch this woman grow :
congratulations to her with this incredible album
switching genre kung-fu style
this concept is fierce !
warmthness björk

Photo from Oral music video we released together almost two years ago ⚔️🦈

Berghain music video : https://t.co/svoCe7lnEu

[Ibai @IbaiLlanos]

Esto es un puto sueño para mi.

T1 vs KOI en Worlds. Nos hemos pasado la vida. Me da igual lo que pase. Nos enfrentamos a nuestros ídolos.

[Ibai @IbaiLlanos]

KOI vs T1.

EL PARTIDO DE NUESTRAS VIDAS.

RT Y ENTRAD. FORMAD PARTE DE ESTO.
https://t.co/cL2WMcjsI6

[Sandman News @SandmanNews]

In its second week, The Sandman Season 2 placed 1st on the Netflix Global Top 10 TV Shows (English) ranking with 5.9M views.

The season received 31.5M hours viewed.

Season 1 placed 7th in the Top 10 with 2.4M views and 22.4M hours viewed.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Above the clouds

[La Historieta Musical (aka Jesús Báez Alcaide) @HistorietaLa]

Podría haber sido solo un cantante más, pero tenía cerebro de matemático y corazón de poeta.

Y así fue que su alma viajera le llevó a buscar los ritmos que laten ocultos en las musicas populares.

Hoy, para cerrar la cuarta temporada de #LaHistorietaMusical, Franco Battiato.

[IvanEstu @Ivanestu]

@MovistarNBA @guillegimenez_ @ADaimiel Ni un partido en Vamos, cuando el año pasado se dieron todos los de la final.

Subir el precio encubiertamente a base de quitar contenidos está feo.

[(fan) Danik @DanikRM_]

Ancelotti bailando con los jugadores del Madrid justo después de ganar la Champions. Este siempre será mi vídeo favorito.

[OptaSTATS @OptaSTATS]

Tonight Luka Dončić led or co-led all players on both teams in:

points
rebounds
assists
blocks
threes made
free-throw pct

He's the first player in NBA history to do that in a playoff game.

[NBA - Jordi de Mas @demas6Basket]

La NBA ha revelado las 10 MEJORES JUGADAS DE LA TEMPORADA

Espectacular 🍿

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The James Webb Space Telescope detected dimethyl sulfide in its atmosphere (on Earth that comes from marine microorganisms).

K2-18b is potentially habitable super-Earth about 2.6 times the size of our planet. It is located 124 light-years from the Solar System.

[MisterChip (Alexis) @2010MisterChip]

Ahí va el tuit que estabais todos esperando…

Si el Real Madrid elimina hoy al Arsenal sortearé MIL EUROS entre todos los seguidores que den RT.

[Amaia On The Brain @amaiaontbrain]

Amaia cantando “Ya está” en el programa “Late Xou” 🥺 #LateXou

[Astro Lucas @AstroLucas09]

@shannonlada

[Space 8K @uhd2020]

Saturn, Mars, Venus, and Jupiter above the Sydney Opera House

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

I captured the entire "Planetary Parade" using my 11" telescope, and combined everything into one composite photo that stayed true to the angular scale of these objects.

Made entirely with real photos, I hope this composite helps illustrate the scale of these things!